I watched SMBZ and NASF, and was immediately hooked on sprite animation. I was also addicted to stick animation, and Terkoiz's animations were king in that department.

not all animations need coding. Coding is useful for making menus, A preloader, or having interactive dialogue. Its also useful for making games, which is where its mainly used. the type of coding flash uses is known as actionscript.

or just use test movie instead, it also lets you see the vcam working that way. I learned of this when I started sprite animating.

It works, just make sure to put Play() in the frame right after.

Thanks, I'm tryin it out now.

That's actually very well animated, now I'm jealous, but if you let me in on the story, I can help with dialogue.

I'm trying to improve my series, and want Dialogue to continue when the user presses space. I'm terrible at actionscripting, any help?

I would need to see the anim as well. And there are tons of people who like sprites, just most sprite animations are poorly done, so they gather a bad rep.

24 fps is great, and works fine. The people who said it causes lag must just want to make an excuse to use 12fps.

I'll try to make a part

we could put a link to this topic in our sig, and then whenever someone asks for DBZ sound effects, we can say, look at sig.

I sprite animate, and Lots of people don't like it, (though lots do), so some of my low votes are because of my style...

Guys, if you can't run a collab here, run it in your account news and PMs, that outta work.

But yes, this needs to be on the front page, I mean, that's why I got my thread locked

Can I take a shot?

I'll take a shot at level 15-16, if thats okay, and I won't use sprites though I'm ussually a sprite animator

don't, It'll ruin you. I knew someone who got in the same situation. They were never the same again. It was terrible...

If we can use sprites, I have a genius idea!

I'll test!

I think 3.5 is too high, I think 3.0 is good. That way, it works for those who are fairly talented, who knows, they might have really awesome collabing abilities.

oh... my browser was loading slow, I didn't see the other posts

I'm sorry, I guess this'll get locked...

unless... can I take it to the newgrounds Collabs seperate forum? Is there requirements there?

well, thank you for preparing me?

but still, the idea is overdone, the story is sub-par, but slightly unique

I know this has probably been done before, maybe... But my reasoning is that I bet there are a lot of sprite animators that are wandering around looking for a collab, hoping one will open. Well, I was thinking that too. So I decided to start a collab!

Story...

mario gets a big head about his strength, so sends letters to all the other powerful fighters he knows that they should have afree for all brawl to determine who's best. Many respond (who comes is up to the authors.). And the big brawl begins.

Requirements

ANY level of expertise is welcome

stage size: 550 x 400

Framerate: 24 fps

I need:
a preloader
a menu
intro-metlwing
part1-I've already done it
part2-
part3-metlwing
part4
part5
part6
part7-metlwing
part8
part9
part10
part11
part12
ending-metlwing

I'm terrible at actionscripting so I NEED someone who can make a preloader and someone who can make a menu as well.

Guys, you don't have to continue the animation before you, you can zoom to a different part of the island to introduce your own characters, eventually, they will come together, meaning you will need to provide your sprites to the others if the characters come in contact, or at least give a link. I'm excited to have you guys onboard, and if we NEED to, we can extend the number of parts.

Please, I don't have room or time for flames about how "terrible" sprite animation is, or how "overdone" my idea is. This is kind of an Extras collab, for those who missed all the other ones so far for now and want to join.

typhoons and hurricanes are the same thing, they are just called different things in different parts of the world, and Typhoon is an alternate name for hurricane.

I have to say, tornadoes span up to a mile in width while a hurrican can spawn to hundreds of miles in width, hurricanes also bring torrential rain, storm surges, and thunderstorms (which can spawn tornadoes)

all a tornado has over a hurricane is windspeed,

and hurricanes can acctually spawn tornadoes, so hurricane takes my vote.

phew! its over

wow! thanks guys

truly it is. There are some people who seem to think there is only one way to do something, they also think that their way IS that only way. Perhaps this also explains?

They think that FBF is the only right way to animate, when truly we live in a time where there are so many roads to any action that at this point.

A sprite anim with a unique story is legit, in my opinion.

when sprites are animated well, it takes a lot of work,

Also, some of us have mice that couldn't draw a straight line at all with an old beat up mouse ball that still rolls crooked no matter how much you clean it.

I do have a problem with people using them to animate the same story time and time again though, that is what first probably gave sprite anims a bad rep.

I still say, It isn't premade animation, its a big picture with little pictures, I say to everyone here who is a sprite hater, to get a sprite sheet, and animate something that gets better than a 4 out of 10. Its tough, quite tough. Animation (of any style) DOES require creativity and hard work. And sprites may actually present tougher challenges as to the limitation of poses (unless you frequently custom make them) whereas, when you draw, you can do any pose.

Artistic Talent does not just apply to painting, it applies to any work of art. Directing, acting, animating, drawing, editing, etc. all require artistic talent. Apparently, someone who posted thought only drawing and painting required Talent.

Also, I personally would preffer alvin-earthworm kept SMBZ mostly sprite animated, It brings a retro feel to it, and makes it feel more interestingly cool to bring together mario themes, and DBZ style fights.

to avoid going to those sites, mouse over the link, then in the bottom left corner, it'll tell you the adress it is linking to, btw, and sorry about the MFGG thing, just click the link at the bottom of the paragraph to continue.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I am laughing at you. Not because you oppose something I like, but because your inability to hold it in, apparently, your not secure enough in your thoughts to accept other pieces beliefs, and you (sprite-haters) are some of the first people I see having to outburst like this to feel they are doing something. So, hmph, hmph to you!

But I do thank those who calmly posted legitimate reasons, you are not included in the above paragraph, I see more of you Point or View, and understand it a bit better.

But whoever posted the Nerdboy pic, not neccesary.... I feel sorry for you....

I understand that people just don't like some animating styles, but why is it that many sprite-haters openly attack sprites, its just uncalled for. Sprites are a legitamite form of animation that requires just as much skill and creativity as other styles. I will just say, if you hate sprites, thats fine, too, but first, explain, and second, don't attack sprites like a raving madman. But I would like to know why the sprite hating audience started anyway, what could make them hateable.

Can they not animate well with sprites, thus hate them.

Are they jealous of popular series such as SMBZ

Do they love animating frame by frame (which is fine), but are so stuck in their idea its the best, they feel they have to down all other forms of animating

what?